Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 2 | Police believe Sweet may have been the victim of a gangland revenge killing , and that he may have been mistaken for someone else . |
| 3 | He should have been done for murder . |
| 4 | The 50-year-old , winner of 61 tournaments worldwide , said that his interpretation of the rules was that he should have been disqualified for signing an incorrect score card . |
| 5 | ‘ He should have been banned for life for the disgraceful tackle that effectively ended the career of Gary Stevens at Spurs . |
| 6 | The RSPCA says it was an act of mindless cruelty , he should have been banned for life . |
| 7 | He should have been banned for life . |
| 8 | Edward Nundy , 55 , of Southend , Essex , was allegedly seen at his boat when he should have been working for Car Buyer magazine . |
| 9 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 10 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 11 | He must have been looking for bathroom . |
| 12 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 13 | ‘ He must have been driving for hours . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure he 'll have been provided for , ’ Dora had said in disapproval . |
| 15 | His stillness made them hesitate ; he might have been watching for fish but the stream was hardly large enough for trout , only minnows or sticklebacks Libby pressed close to George , they stayed on the path watching . |
| 16 | He might have been picked for his sullenness . |
| 17 | He might have been waiting for someone . |
| 18 | He could have been paralysed for life … by a toy which been hired to give him a good time . |
| 19 | He could have been forgiven for thinking that he was God 's gift to acting . |
| 20 | He could have been crying for his mummy . |
| 21 | The Prince was sitting quietly there , his hands clasped , staring down at the table , so silent he could have been taken for some studious monk ; his robes , however , were splendid , his fingers covered in precious rings , and his hair and golden beard carefully combed and oiled . |
| 22 | He would be in as much danger as me because if he shouted across to me , he 'd have been done for idling his time and gossiping . |
| 23 | I sometimes thought that he would enjoy being mistaken for the one rather than the other , because he disliked the idea of poetry as a ‘ profession ’ : an attitude which some lesser figures found puzzling . |
| 24 | There is simply no way he would have been accepted for training in our Church — and that is perhaps a tragedy . |
| 25 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 26 | Had he not opened his mouth , he would have been done for dumb insolence . |
| 27 | It was bad enough trying to get to a classroom and he knew if he had explored the corridors he would have been lost for certain . |
| 28 | I tried to persuade him that things could n't be so bad as the French paper made out or he would have been wired for . |
| 29 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 30 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |